AMUSEMENTS
Amusement The Week On Stage By Joseph T. Shipley SURRY jADE WTPHE jade god. . . Whoever keeps it * will be cursed. . . Joy will die for rum . . Fear will come. . . Love will be changed to...
...The Henry Street Settlement has been holding "Open Sesame Week...
...Roy Del Ruth directed from Harvey Gates's adaptation of the Schwab and Man del operetta...
...whethe- it be the star-andauthor's class at college, in anniversary celebration, or the North Hillmeadow, S. I. Bridge and Pinochle Club, "Kibltaer" holds th?m a glad hand...
...The sharp arraignment of Mayor Walker and the Estimate Board was contained in a communication yesterday to ihr Mayor from O. August Gerber...
...The advance sale is the biggest in the history of the theatre, according to reports from the producers...
...There Is no question that the emotion of most frequenters of mystery plays is greatly stirred at the performances...
...History will remember the day...
...Under the direction of Francesco Colssanto...
...MrGerber pointed out yesterday, human considerations were paramount and the musician, who has his living to make and a family to support, came before any "canned music...
...The Apple Cart," will take place at the Teatr Polskl in Warsaw, some time next month The translation is the work of Florjan Sobienlowski...
...Without being a second "Abies Irish Rose," this play has somewhat as strong an appeal to much the same audience...
...Sacrifices must be made before it...
...Berlin After Dark," which is to have its first American presentation at the 55th Street Playhouse beginning Saturday, May 25th...
...The music and the lyrics are by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, two of the composers on the staff of nine maintained by Warner Brothers at their Hollywood Studios...
...May 31...
...Other movie fans who apprec.ate sincerity and the absence of saccharide in their film fare, should not miss this moving, dramatic story of the Russias...
...May 25, 8:30 P. M.—Comer Sixty-eighth 6treet and Bay Parkway Speaker, Henry Jager _ Friday...
...At the Music Box, "The Little Show" continues, we are glad to announce, deservedly to crowd the theatre...
...when the spirit is numbed and vitality at its ebb, when more than man's flesh needs warming, for life seems hardest and our goals farthest away—it is then that the mystery fulfils its proper function, pointed out by old Aristotle...
...plays to tickle the senses, not to tear the emotions ragged...
...E. W. Whitwell, ciC-^g director o: the Coliseum...
...Mimeographed outlines on each subject, with pertinent facts and figures in concise form, are being prepared, both to save time at the sessions of the group and to be preserved by the speakers for future reference...
...A Night In Venice"—reviewed next week—took its way to this city, for the Shubert Theatre opening, in eight baggage cars and five more for the players...
...Gerber announced that he is acting on behalf at tiie musicians and that the New York Coliseum was obtained through the cooperation of Cant...
...25 cents and 50 centi...
...Josephine Houston, Henry Fink, Thomas Jefferson and Tom O'Brien...
...The Richard Wagner Symphony Orchestra and the Magda Daw Operatic Company are two of the participating groups The support of some of the leading musicians, with international reputations...
...Villase of Sin" has been adapted from twenty Russian pre-revolutionary and Soviet folk songs and dancas: and an exhibition of Soviet Graphic Arts of today is ou view In the lounge...
...Berlin After Dark" is laid in the German capital and is a mystery romance, touching both the upper and the underworld...
...It was wise of the author to bring a couple of derricks, but even they cannot lift interest in this play from the blue dumps Into which its puerilities pile us...
...It was directed by Alan Crosland...
...Those who connect the Russian films with propaganda only will revise their i-----ss'ons ;f they witness "The Village of Sin...
...On With the Show" is the first motion picture to be filmed by this new process which Warner Brothers will use in otiier productions for the coming year...
...William E. Barry (no relation...
...The world's premiere of Universal's special production of "Broadway" will take place on Monday, May 27th, at the Globe Theatre...
...at the Booth, Is one of those live shows that continues to grow as it goes...
...a German scenic "The Bavarian Alps," and other features...
...It was directed by Alan Crosland...
...nor do the disjointed, the obvious, the unskillfully handled episodes warrant longer recollecting...
...His approach throughout has been that of an interested...
...As a picture of peasant life it is unsurpassed...
...In the Land of Let's Pretend...
...Others prominent in the cast are Louise Fazenda, Johnny Arthur, Jack Pratt, Edward Martlndel, John Mil J an Marie Wells, Otto Hoffman, Myma Loy and Robert E. Guzman...
...Otto Hoffman, Harry Gribbon, Purnell B. Pratt...
...Lew Fields has prepared a play in which he Is appearing, with Betty Starbuck and Billy Taylor also making it worth while...
...www J j sat ».¥ta, Training Class For Socialist Campaigners If the responsible officers of the Socialist Party organization in Nev.- York city have their way, the party's candidates and speakers in the approach«ng campaign will be well equipped to di;:u-s municipal Issues from the Socialist point of view, as well as to expound the general principles of Socialism...
...Broadway" will forecast the motion picture productions of the future In that it introduces every modern method of production and photography...
...Among them are "Lot *Xe Have My Dreams," "Am I Blue...
...but writing this review four days after seeing It, I cannot remember why the first scene had to be "10 pa...
...the physical manifestations of the fear impulse...
...Henry Jager...
...The color photography process ui?ed in filming the picture is the latest development of Technicolor and is said to reproduce all tones and shades in natiral coior...
...Just as the medieval "mystery play"—as the program of the Freiburg Passion Play at the Hippodrome reminds ua—restored the confidence ol the people of the dark ages, in their fight, against the evil one, so the modern "mystery play" lends reassurance in a world still full of evil forces...
...More about mysteries below: enough about this...
...Kibitzer," at the Royale, by Jo Swerllng and its star...
...The price will be popular...
...That witchcraft, the handmaiden of superstition, flourishes among us today, Chris tensen also proves, in a series of re-enacted sequences...
...instead, therefore, of leaping from the seat and rushing down the aisle and out of the theatre, the roused one sits enjoying, reveling in, his fear...
...In every respect "The Village of Sin" is a satisfying picture...
...FILMS: Silent and Sound "The Village of Sin" at the Carnegie Playhouse, is as Russian as borscht and let us hasten to adu...
...It's a great game, this finding a level of entertainment which will fit the great majority...
...August Claessens and Algernon Lee will meet the group next Monday at 8 p. m. On June 3 and 10 Louis Weld—an r<" take up the transit issue, and others will foQow...
...Familiar names continue to occur in the list of recruits for the various road companies of this success, and of "The New Moon," which Schwab and Mandel are also producing, this one at the Imperial...
...The Jade God" is an effort at the second play...
...Am I keeping you waiting...
...Both of these men have written many popular song hits...
...Additional concert*, aided by members from the most proml- • nent orchestras, will be given through the entire summer...
...This is the first Soviet film directed by a woman, Olga Rreobrezhenskaya, who is a student of the theatres of Meierhold and Tairov and a member of the State Film Institute of Moscow...
...The Vitaphone operetta, produced by Warner Bros., continues its recordbreaking run at Warner Bros...
...The audience knows that Oedipus has killed his own father and married his mother: no one on the stag': is aware of this horror...
...In its own field...
...It returns to the formula of the old Greek mysteries, the tragic plays of the great dramatic period...
...The Grand Street Follies...
...SEASON-END HINTS III A mystery play is winter fare for the theatre...
...This is by way of preliminary to the comment that the first type of mystery, the suave, natural type, is good theatrical fare at any season, and that A. A. Milne's "The Perfect Alibi" is continuing to crowd Charles Hopkins' Theatre...
...Chinese O'Neill," mom at the Forrest, was forced to postpone its opening from the beginning of the week, by several important changes in the cast...
...Fritz Feld, Arthur Hausman...
...Deep in the bowels of the earth, according to their beliefs was hell, where lesser offenders spent their days swallowing flames of fire...
...While the story centers around the solution of a baffling murder mystery, the romantic interest surrounds the daughter of the slain man, the owner of the amusement park, and her sweetheart, who Is suspected of the crime...
...The color photography process used in filming the picture is the latest development of Technicolor and is said to reproduce all tones and shades in natural color...
...Glenn Tryon plays the role of "the hoofer," Merna Kennedy the role of "Billie Moore" and Evelyn Brent that of "Pearl...
...Rather, he presents fully documented evidence of the abnormal, sadistic tendencies which received their expression in the burning of thousands of men, women and children, and leaves the judgment of their worthiness to the audience...
...Corse Payton—of course—and Mary Glbbs Spooner...
...At the Hudson, "Messin' Around" gives as much dancing, and as lively black stepping, as any musical play since black birds appeared on the Broadway horizon...
...At the National Theatre "Congratulations...
...Bedanova, another Russian discovery of Morris Gest, plays in a fragment from Schnitrier's "Affairs of Anatole...
...When the play Is over, he has used up his evening's quantity of fear, and may go home to a comfortable bed and pleasant dreams...
...Susan replies "Yes, unless Major Fothergill is going to let us-isee Mm shave!'' IV...
...The women in the cast can give some of the movie stars familiar to American audiences, Jewels, marcel waves, rouge and gowns and make the latter look like mannikins...
...From the Ufa Studios of Berlin comes a new film...
...ture, radio and other menaces that have been rapidly decimating their ranks, throwing them on the market, announce a series of four concerts to be given beginning Decoration Day night at the New York Coliseum, the huge amphitheatre in the Bronx adjoining Starlight Park on East 177th Street...
...a suave, smooth-running piece without any of the hidden snakes or green gods or smoke-clouded East Indian dervishes or demi-magicians—a play such as "Cock Robin (by Barry—Philip—and Elmer Rice) or Milne's "The Perfect Alibi...
...It is perhaps the favorite play these days for theatre Parties...
...Staginess and posing are absent...
...There is another sort of mystery, even more successful...
...the power of the play grows from the gradual drawing together of the clues, until the various characters, and finally Oedipus himself, come to recognize what has happened...
...Don Hartman, by the way, will soon have to abandon his portrayal of young Andy, the lad who imps his way through the family that seema skidding...
...There is a naturalness and simplicity about the performance in keeping with the best traditions of the Russian school...
...a Dane, and still remains his masterpiece...
...At a recent poll conducted by the London Film Weekly, "The Constant Nymph" was voted to be the outstanding British film of all time...
...On With the Show," the first 100 per cent natural color, sinsr'.ng-, talking and dancing picture, a Warner Bros...
...suffering from the talking motion plc<r...
...The picture was adapted "by Robert Lord from a story by Humphrey Pearson -orrr.erly a New York aovert^ing man...
...Broadway" Is the first million dollar all-talking motion picture to be presented to New York audiences...
...This film, which depicts the terror which prevailed through the centuries and even to this day through the fear of the unknown, was produced by Benjamin Christcnsen...
...Several of the players in "Follow Thru.'' at the Chanin 46th Street Theatre we are told have become parents...
...Welcome Home" and "Lift the Juleps to Your Two Lips...
...the play progresses with the gradual piecing together of clues until these men are led into the trap...
...Margaret Wycherly plays the part of the mystery maid...
...A large proportion of the picture takes place in a huge Berlin amusement park, a place similar to Coney Island, and at police headquarters...
...Has the play been running that long...
...The Songs which they have composed for "Gri With the Shew" will be sung by the principals...
...Intelligence and entertainment, simplicity and beauty, it helps to prove, need not always be like the old man and old woman of the box-barometer, one popping out when the other comes in...
...of a big theatrical family, were among the road celebrities at the performance...
...And every card player will give "Kibitzer" a good hand...
...The film is called "Witchcraft Through the Ages...
...Kibitzer" will give any card player (and any one who has suffered from card players) an evening of laughter...
...Organizer Claessens will conduct, the group, and such men as Louis P. Goldberg...
...a nlm transportation of Margaret Kennedy'^ bestseller as a novel and gTeat success as a play, has been acquired by the Little Carnegie Playhouse and will be released at an early date...
...The music and the lyrics are by Harrv Akst and Grant Clarke...
...Movies Page 6 The Little Carnegie Playhouse announces that due to the enthusiastic reception accorded "The Village ol Sin," this Sovklno film will be retained lor a second week...
...From this point he gradually leads up to the Middle Ages, when the fear of witchcraft descends like a scourge upon mankind and the flaming stake reeked with human flesh in agony...
...I fancy, to Philip or James) offers his mystery drama "The Jade God...
...For all along there is a comfortable assurance that this is nothing but a play—no» reality, play—in a theatre...
...actual hysteria is not unknown, and probably everyone has felt the tightening of the throat, the holding of the breath, of the body...
...Vitaphone production in Technicolor, opened for an indefinite run a: the Winter Garden on Tuesday night...
...nor is it lacking discovery...
...who wrote and acts the little sketch "The Age of Innocence (Masculine)", has been signed by A. H. Woods for three years...
...Saturday...
...No one suffers from nightmare after finishing a ghost story...
...The romantic leads are sung by John Boles andCarlotta King who have proved that light, opera songs may be just as effective/ on the screen as upon the stageMiss King has sprung into a prominence through her work in "The Desert Song" that promises to make her one of the most popular young singers of the country, and John Boles has materially strengthened and increased his fan following by his rendition of the role of the Red Shadow...
...A specially arranged accompanying music score to "Th...
...George Davis, Leslie Fenton, Betty Francisco...
...With the proper denouement of the tale, the fear is washed away...
...The Hickey Brothers, Will and Gladys Ahearn, and others add a familiar touch to the otherwise rather highbrow program...
...The world premiere of Bernard Shaw's latest play...
...8:30 P. M—Corn* Bristol Street and Pitkin Avenue...
...good borscht...
...Ted Healy, Ann Seymour, the McCarthy Sisters, and a list too long to print—but rich with promised entertainment—are by now rmsing their curtain at 8:30 nightly—except, we must still add, in spite of rumors, except Sunday...
...The Perfect Alibi" draws its power from the same device: the audience, having seen the murder committed, knows the guilty ones...
...Berlin After Dark" was directed by Constantin J. David of Ufa's directorial staff and features Kurt Gorron, noted German stage and screen star, and Grlta Loy, one of the best known Continental film players...
...Is being thrown behind the efforts of the unemployed musicians...
...Edward O. Robinson, is an all summer play...
...March 15th...
...These went so well that he is keeping them in the show...
...Witchcraft" to Be Shown After Battle With Censors "Witchcraft Through the Ages," a comprehensive study of witchcraft, sorcery, superstition and black magic, which for two years was held up by the State "?oard of Censors, is being presented this reek at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse...
...symphony director, the 100 unemployed musicians wtil give a gala concert, excerpts from four popular operas, a band concert and a number of ballet divertissements...
...Its production was supervised by Basil Doan, who produced the dramatization of Miss Kennedy's novel in London and New York...
...Food for thought can be provided in so many ways, from predigested pellets to indigestible lumps, that each guess is as good as the next—until Broadway proves It right or wrong...
...Street Meetings BROOKLYN Saturday...
...A young widow, who has kept the party waiting while she powders her nose and cheeks, rouges her lips, and performs the other elements of feminine toUetrie so common now in public, looks up and exclaims "Oh...
...managing director of the Debs Memorial Radio Fund, operating Station WEVDThough director of a radio station...
...a film transcription of Margaret Kennedy's best seller as a novel and great success as a play, has been acquired by the Little Carnegie Playhouse and will be released at an early date...
...Perkins, who loves and lives and dies within the walls of the home the Derricks are hiring...
...Broadway" is an adaptation of the popular stage success of that name the motion picture rights to which were purchased by the Universal Pictures Corporation for the record sum of $255,000...
...Sam Hardy, the Fairbanks Twins, Wheeler Oakman, Lee Moran...
...At the melodrama, especially at the heavy mystery, with its appeal to every one of man's fears—of propertyloss, of personal danger, of the grip of hidden mighty powers—one may truly experience, and enjoy, one's fear...
...On With the Show" is the first motion picture to be filmed by this new process which Warner Bros, will use in other productions for the coming year...
...The Judges are M Jagendorf, of the Children's Playhouse, Alfred Kreymborg, and H. Craft, producer of "Gentlemen of the Press...
...thus automatically throwing hundreds of musicians out of employment, union musicians have taken defensive measures by initiating a co-operative enterprise to combat the inroads of mechanical aaa electrical competition...
...Plays and Players SKIDDING" has now completed Its 3 first year on Broadway, and is testing the further continuance of its run at the Bayes...
...Witchcraft Through the Ages" traces the history of the development of man's beliefs in the supernatural...
...In the cast are such screen and stage favorites as Betty Compson, Arthur Lake, Sally O'Neil, Joe E. Brown, Louise Fazenda, William Bakewell, Ethel Waters...
...With this quotation from Alan Sullivan's novel on its program page...
...The Shuberts have Carroll and Dorothy Sands . . . knowing good things, when they see them...
...My favorite line in the play is one spoken by sweet Susan...
...In "Oedipus Rex," the plague will be lifted from the city when the great sin is removed...
...The Theatre Guild, presumably, will let us see the work (In English) in the fall...
...The Coliseum will seat 17,000...
...Theatre where seats are on sale four weeks ahead...
...Its anniversary, the publicity staff points out, coincides with that of Lindbergh's flight...
...Love will be changed to hate...
...The Constant Nymph...
...This play, in addition to having all the sly dexterity of language, the impishness of characterization, that we associate with the "Whimsical" in Milne—which he in a program note tries vainly to define from his critics' words—is a novelty in the way of mysteries...
...Stepping Out," Elmer Harris' new comedy at the Fulton, plays on the antics of middle-aged husbands and middleaged wives, each seeking youth afield It was received with a measure of hilarity that forecasts a stay through the summer at least...
...The status of women in the old Russia and the new, is vividly set forth...
...At a special matinee last week, Albert Carroll tried a few more impersonations, in street suit—including one of Mayor Walker...
...She Got What She Wanted" seems on the rtg&t side...
...to achieve this a character is invented, but made a quite natural creature of that environment and unobtrustively set down for his occasion...
...Musical comedies flourish with the flowering of spring...
...June 1, 8:30 P. M.—Corn* Sixty-eighth Street and Bay ParkwaySpeaker, Henry Jager...
...Edythe Flynn, Florence Dudley and Ruby McCoy...
...Henry Hadley, the noted conductor of the Manhattan Symphony, himself, will give two concerts, June 9 and 15 at the Coliseum, for the co-operative benefit of the musicians, following the first four concerts to be given Mav 30 and 31...
...B. C. Vladek, and Louis Waldman will each devote on^ or two evenings to helping the campaigners to organize their material and marshal their arguments so as to speak in the most effective way on transit, housing, public education, the police and crime, and other specific issues...
...The characters who swarm in Lazarus's cigar store on Amsterdam Avenue are many-raced and well caught, from the man who smokes cigarettes Incessantly, but never his own, to Kibitzer Lazarus himself, always giving advice yet never able to act on his own Initiative...
...The picture was adapted by Robert Lord from a story by Humphrey Pearson...
...who has already turned sixteen of Shaw's plays into Polish...
...Under the auspices of Carl Laemmle, Jr„ associate producer, and the direction of Paul Fejos, the talking version will present the last word in motion picture production...
...It is only when one goes to bed with the story unfinished that the fear lingers...
...it mingles its superstition and its natural events unhesitatingly...
...This week is song week at the Palace...
...He goes to Camp Tamlment as social director for the summer...
...The back-breaking toil, the customs and even the outlook on life, before and after the revolution, give a more authentic picture than one could obtain by the reading of a half dozen travel books...
...Norman Thomas...
...We haven't recently reminded you— but hereby do—that at Erlanger's, in "Hello Daddy...
...Douglass R. Dumbrille now has the main role...
...One hundred symphony orchestra members, concert and operatic artists and band musicians...
...confronted by problems which he could not understand, peopled his world with demons and devils and a hell and heaven...
...that in which the smooth-running plot is not suave but hectic, beating with swift blows upon the cruder consciousness of its audience—a play such as "The Bat" or "Dracula...
...No Russian film equals it for beauty of photography, lmpresslveness and artistry of the well-balanced cast...
...Jagendorf declares that he has demanded less arson, murder, senility, and insanity among the themes of this year's plays in the contest...
...Intelligent onlooker...
...with activities ever}- day indicative of the year's work in dance and play...
...the work of Morgan Wallace, an old time stock company actor-manager, has been giving a party to players and managers of stock companies...
...Benjamin Christensen's authoritative study of witchcraft, sorcery and the supernatural which has just been passed after a long battle with the Censors will be shown publicly for the first time in America at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse beginning this Saturday (May 25th...
...The cup in the Metropolitan League Little Theatre Contest is offered by Eddie Cantor...
...On the same program is a -Max Davidson comedy, "Fighting Fathers...
...The Revelers, a quartet beard on phonographs and over the air, sang on with further harmony, giving a version of "OV Man River" that puts them to a test, this song being by now more or less a measuring rod among songsters...
...For, each in its Mnd, the plays produce by the stimulation of appropriate emotions the release (the cleansing of the system) of these emotions...
...Robert Ellis, Otis Harlan, Marian Lord...
...Primitive man...
...Speaker...
...And it is in the colder seasons...
...Following up the start made with the well attended Municipal Affairs Institute on April 27 and 28, there is to be a Campaigners' Seminary, under the joint direction of local New York and the Rand School...
...The Constant Nymph...
...Paula Trueman...
...In it, Christensen has made no attempt to ridicule the beliefs held by those who suffer from supernatural hallucination...
...John Charles Thomas heads the bill, with a variety of baritone selections ranging from "Pagllaccl" to 'Tommy Lad," with selections from "Apple Blossoms" and "Maytime" for good measure...
...On With the Show" Opens at the Winter Garden Tuesday Night "On With the Show," the first 100 per cent natural color, singing, talking and dancing picture, a Warner Brothers' VItaphone production in technicolor, will open for a stay of indefinite length at the Winter Garden on Tuesday night, May 28th...
...In fact, one would be tempted to rechristen the film, "The New Freedom...
...Union Musicians to Give Series of Four ConcertS Criticising Mayor Walker and tlw Board of Estimate for approprlatinj $50,000 for broadcasting band concrru from Central Park to other city parks...
...At Wallack's Theatre, "She Got What She Wanted" has begun the end of a race after the run of "Skidding," which Itself Is on the trail of "Abie's Irish Rose...
...And at the same time no one is afraid...
...The play depends for its effectiveness—I shan't give its clever end away—on having something happen that no one must know has happened...
...This is not to be class in public speaking, nor is it to be a course of lectures On Monday evenings, beginning May 27, and continuing for probably eight or ten weeks, all candidates and speakers will be expected to meet in the People's House...
...There is a sort of mystery for the intelligent...
...Birmingham Bertha," "Don't It Mean a Thing...
...and June 1 and 2 by the orchestras under the direction of Signor Colasanto...
...Other members of the cast include Thomas E. Jackson, and Paul Porcasi from the original stage production...
Vol. 8 • May 1929 • No. 19
